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Teacher: Stepanenko: L.Yu.
Secondary school #38
Sevastopol
December 16, 2011

of the English novel
wrote more than 560 books, pamphlets and journals on various topics (politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural)
a pioneer of economic journalism
used at least 198 pen names

Mary Foe
his father was a tallow chandler
studied at religious academies to become a priest
at the age of 18 left school
went into the hosiery business
married Mary Tuffley in 1684.
had seven children - two sons and five daughters
was always in deep debt
was successful in journalism and literature
died on 24 April 1731
his grave is still visited.

killed (1665)
the Great Fire of London - only his and two other homes were left in the area (1666)
a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham (1667)

royal favour for “The True-Born Englishman”(1701)
was imprisoned for “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters” for 7 years (1703)
published his most successful work “Robinson Crusoe” (1719)

Plague Year(1722)
Captain Jack (1722)
Moll Flanders (1722)
Roxana (1724)

History of the Pyrates(1724)
-A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journeys (1724–1727)
Essays
Poems

of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures
is based on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez

China to Europe via Russia
to the moment, the considerable part of the geographical items of his trip had not been identified

and cleric
remembered for works such as
Gulliver’s Travels
A Modest Proposal
A Journal to Stella
Drapier’s Letters
The Battle of the Books
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
A Tale of a Tub.

recent collection of his prose works comprises fourteen volumes.
A recent edition of his complete poetry is 953 pages long.
One edition of his correspondence fills three volumes.

Parts.
By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships(1726)
reflects his political experiences
was an immediate hit, with a total of three printings that year and another in early 1727
French, German, and Dutch translations appeared in 1727
pirated copies were printed in Ireland.

to Brobdingnag
Part III: A Voyage to Laputa,
Balnibarbi, Luggnagg,
Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
Part IV: A Voyage to the Country
of the Houyhnhnms

adjective meaning "small and delicate”
The smallest light bulb fitting (5mm diameter) is called the “Lilliput Edison screw”
In Dutch, the word "Lilliputter" is used for adults shorter than 1.30 meters
"Brobdingnagian" appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as a synonym for "very large" or "gigantic".
The term "yahoo" is often encountered as a synonym for "ruffian" or "thug".

cathedral, in accordance with his wishes.
The bulk of his fortune was left to found a hospital for the mentally ill, which still exists as a psychiatric hospital.

Victorian Period.
enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular.
his work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Gissing and G.K. Chesterton

the second of eight children, to John and Elizabeth Dickens.
His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay-office.
In his childhood Dickens had a near-photographic memory of the people and events, which he later used in his writing.

financial difficulties –
to Bloomsbury, Kent and then to
Camden Town, in London in 1822.
Dickens’ father continually lived beyond his means and was often imprisoned.
Charles left school and began working ten-hour days at Warren's Blacking Warehouse to pay for his board and help his family.

Academy, London, and at Mr. Dawson's school in 1827.
From 1827 to 1828 he was a law office clerk, and then a shorthand reporter at Doctor's Commons.
At the age of eighteen, Dickens applied for a reader's ticket at the British Museum, where he read the works of Shakespeare, Goldsmith, and Berger.

Walk was published in the
London periodical, Monthly Magazine
in 1833.
His journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces Sketches
by Boz, published in 1836.
Dickens’ first novel, The Pickwick
Papers appeared in March 1836.

1837)
The Adventures of Oliver Twist ( 1837 - 1839)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby(1838 - 1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841)
Barnaby Rudge(1841)
The Life and Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)

Dombey and Son
(1846-1848)
David Copperfield (1849-1850)
Bleak House(1852-1853)
Hard Times: For These Times (1854)
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860-1861)
Our Mutual Friend
(1864-1865)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

public readings from his best-loved novels:
Reading tours in America
“Farewell readings" in England, Scotland, and Ireland
He died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, on 9 June 1870, at the age of 58.
His resting place is Poets’
Corner, Westminster Abbey

novels with
believable personalities and vivid
physical descriptions.
His characters are among the most memorable in English literature: Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, the Artful Dodger, Fagin, Uriah Heep, Miss Havisham and others.

Often these characters were based on
people he knew.

Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth is the house in which Dickens was born.
Dickens World themed attraction, covering 71,500 square feet (6,643 m2)
The Museum of London hosts the UK's first major exhibition on the author for 40 years to
celebrate the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Charles Dickens in 2012

issued by the Bank of England which was in circulation in the UK between 1992 and 2003.
Dickens appeared on the reverse of the note accompanied by a scene from The Pickwick Papers.
Stamp in “The Centenary Edition of
The Works of Charles Dickens in 36
Volumes” was issued to his hundredth anniversary.

are we going to celebrate next year?
Which of these authors invented new words that are still used in many languages?

is for the body
Enjoy reading world classical literature!